Box 1
Container
Contains 29 Results:
Photographs, 1948 - 1965
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of Lightnin' Hopkins, John A. Lomax, Jr., Ed Badeaux, Ben Ramey, Jimmmie Lee Grubbs Radliff, and others.
Dates:
1948 - 1965
Scrapbook, 1956 - 1960
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Content Description
From the Collection:
This collection contains the materials related to Howard Porper's musical career, as well as his progressive politics.
Dates:
1956 - 1960
The Weavers at Harold Belikoff's house, 1951
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: porper_002
Scope and Contents
Contents include: The Weavers consisting of Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman playing at Harold Belikoff's house when they were playing at the Shamrock. Side A: "Takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Song," "Dig an Oil Well as Deep as Can Be," "Midnight Special" - John Lomax, Jr. (Mimi Lomax in background) trying to remember verses. "Old Riley," "Green Corn," "Pick a Bale of Cotton," "Squid-Jigglin' Ground," Harold Belikoff's voice, "Last Night I had the Strangest...
Dates:
1951
Pete Seeger at the Jewish Community Center, parts 1 and 2, 1951, 1954
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: porper_004
Scope and Contents
Contents include: Side A: Pete Seeger at the Jewish Commuity Center: Chester Bower's introduction, "House Carpenter," "Old Joe Clark" - banjo solo, "The Devil and the Farmers Wife," "Texian Boys," "Long John," "Take a Whiff on Me" - This switches back to the song sung by John A. Lomax, Jr. and performed at Harold Belikoff's house, when the Weavers were there. Side B: "On My Way," "Down Derry Down," "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues," "Squid-Jiggin' Ground," "Jay Gould's Daughter," "Big Rock Candy...
Dates:
1951; 1954
Pete Seeger at the Jewish Community Center, parts 5 & 6 / Ed Badeaux / The Weavers, part 3, 1951 - 1956
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: porper_003
Scope and Contents
Contents include: Side A: Pete Seeger at the Jewish Commuity Center: " Follow the Drinking Gourd," "Boll Weevil" - John A. Lomax, Jr. uses a racial slur for Black people, "Little Phoebe," "Shalom Aleichem" - Howie Porper, "T for Texas," "Careless Love," "Frozen Logger," "Everybody Loves Saturday Night," "Beans, Bacon, and Gravy"; Side B: "We Shall Not Be Moved," "We Shall Overcome," "Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho"; "Dug Out Dug" - Ed Badeaux, 1956; Weavers at the Harold Belikoff's...
Dates:
1951 - 1956
Pete Seeger at the Jewish Community Center, parts 3 and 4, 1954
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: porper_005
Scope and Contents
Contents include: Side A: Pete Seeger at the Jewish Commuity Center: "Tum-balalayke," "Mexican Birthday Song," "Jefferson and Liberty," "No Irish Need Apply," "If You're Black Get Back," "In the Evenin' When the Sun Goes Down," "Drill Ye Tarriers Drill," "Izina, Izina," "Suliram," Recorder melodies - Irish, Japanese, Israeli; Side B: Recorder melodies - Native American, "Tarantella," Irish, "Hey Daroma," "Bayeza," "Down in the Valley," "Aimee McPherson," "Old Maid's Lament," "Hey Lolly...
Dates:
1954
Hootenanny with Lightnin' Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb, 1960
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: porper_008
Scope and Contents
Contents include: Ben Ramey is the announcer. "Bily Barlow" - Howard Porper, "T for Texas" - Pete Rose and Jim, "Come to the Bower" - Jimmie Lee Grubbs, "Willie Poor Boy" - Mance Lipscomb, "Motherless Children" - Mance Lipscomb, Recitation - John A. Lomax, Jr., "Streets of Laredo" - Jim and Howard Porper, "Wreck of the Old 97," "Galveston Flood" - Ed Badeaux, "The Alamo" - all, "Binori" - Howard Porper, "Little Black Flies" - Ben Ramey, "Happy Blues for John Glenn" - Lightnin' Hopkins, "Ship...
Dates:
1960
First Hootenanny, 1960
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: porper_007
Scope and Contents
Contents include: "Come a Ti-Yi-Yippie-Yay" - John A. Lomax, Jr., "Spanish Is a Loving Tongue" - Kyla Bynum / Ben Ramey; "Down on Penny's Farm" - Jim Lyday and Howard Porper, "All the Chickens in the Garden", "Long John" - John A. Lomax, Jr., "Takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Song" - Jim Lyday, "Down in the Mine" - Howard Porper, "Hold the Fort," "Take a Whiff on Me" - John A. Lomax, Jr., "Beans, Bacon, and Gravy," "This Is Land is Your Land." Ben Ramey is the announcer.
Dates:
1960
Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, and Pete Seeger [?] at Herman Wright's house, 1948
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: porper_001
Scope and Contents
Contents include: Side A: "Big Rock Candy Mountain," "The Rambler" performed by Cisco Houston; "Ramblin' Reckless Hobo," "Railroad Bill" performed by Cisco Houston and Woody Guthrie; "Jesse James" performed by Woody Guthrie; "When Death Has Closed My Eyelids," "Way up in Heaven," "What Did the Deep Sea Say," "You Want to Get to Heaven This Morning," "Travelin' through Birmingham," "Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad," fiddle and guitar, performed by Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston; "John...
Dates:
1948